Posts by BozNZ

Better left to the authorities

... Because they never fuck up do they.

Must say it..

256 quintillion zettabytes, aught to be enough for anyone...

More Pork

The price of your space toilet just went up to $20M

GUI for wimps, Give me the Command line Phone

>Phone Mum

- You do not have permission to phone Mum.

>sudo Phone Mum

- Phoning mum on /dev/phone/3g...

Wow!

I didn't know sheep farming was so profitable!

Kardashev Type II

We're currntly in a Kardashian Stage 1 society, a long way to go me thinks!

Anyone using this?

This is becoming more of a Unity rant, maybe Unity is not to everyones taste but many actually prefer it.

Linux Mint is a nice Ubuntu derivitive for people who prefer a more traditional desktop, nobodies stopping you from using it but remember not everyone wants command prompts and root access from linux, they just want to write a letter and go on facebook.

The real issue is amazon search sponsorship integration, this is a beta release and they are planning a kill switch, did anyone read the fucking article!

Being a mere computer programmer and not a lawyer, this seems pretty damn logical to me, my wife who is an accountant says it seems pretty damn logical to her as well.

That's 0.00004% of the population on board.

Looks Nice

I've recently taken a personal decision to boycott Apple Products (Litigation and snobbishness are two things I seriously hate) so If the build quality in this is up to their old models it could be a winner. My 5250 is still going strong despite 4 years of hard knocks, ugly and the GUI is as quirky as sin but you eventually got used to it.

Still in two minds about Windows on a phone though, I'd prefer someone else to take the gamble on that.

bit of a whinge...

Only been away from windows server admin since server 2003, but the newer server GUIs look like they've been designed by a committee as I totally couldnt find out how to find anything on the server 2008 GUI I has too look at the other day when all the normal guys were away, had to google everything! even basic things like the event log took a million more mouse clicks to open..

Not sure I like the direction MS is going, hope 2012 is more logical

Software patents DONT work in the real world outside of big corporations.

I'm a software and embedded systems designer based in NZ working for myself (a soletrader) and working for small to medium clients (you know the mom-n-pop ones also without legal departments!)

When a client asks me to develop software for them I generally just follow exactly whatever they want. If they ask for a dispatch scheduler say where I drop records on to a time grid to schedule them, how the hell am I to know if someone holds a patent for that, most (read all) non-techie clients by default just look at what a similar system does and asks to make it work like that but with this improvement and without this wanky bit.

They actually never say "copy that exactly" as that would probably be copy write infringement, however with loose software patents (like the US is doing) will I be obliged to do tell them to do a patent search beforehand on every aspect of their design (and loose the work), do it myself (I wouldnt know where to start) or just do it, If I just do it who is at fault if the lawyers come a calling? me for not checking the customers design was patented or them?

I wrote to the MP chairing the comittee a few years ago stating this, but who's going to listen to me?

OMG

I seriously wouldnt know if I could scratch my arse these days without knowing if it infringed an apple patent...

Apple

So the big question is.. When will Apple Sue them?

Good on em

Would serial-whingers and people who have achieved nothing in life, please let the entrepreneurs get on with making history.

good on em..

EU Regulations

Give us a break, I dont even live in the f**king EU

Battery Life

2 months battery life running Windows 8 e-reader edition - ROTFL

Awesome

Awesome, Just need a f**** starship now!

You forgot the UK Rip-Off Tax

A Normal kindle in US is $79, in UK its 89 quid by that logic this will be be around 230 quid

UFO 2013

Bring it on

High Priest?

Never heard of him!

Competition is good

I really wonder what would be powering our PC's now if Intel had no competition?

Not quite complete

We need a steampunk OS now

$kype

Microsoft should have waited a few months, with all the bad publicity they could have probably picked up Skype for a lot less $$

Awesome

Just found a load of Tomorrow People episodes on You Tube, not quite as awesome as when I was 10, but yehaa!

I'm not a lawyer either, but

An EULA cannot and should not have an opt in or opt out to override the privacy law (or any other law) of a country, if it does so the application should NOT be available in that country and the company should withdraw the applications use.

There's Greenpeace "Science" and real Science.

They seriously need to get rid of some of these idiots they currently have, without a neutral bias and true weighing up of environmental impacts, real issues will get swamped under the non-substantiated and scare mongering crap.

Greenpeace science reporting currently rates somewhere between Intelligent Design and Astrology

I ripped my card up over ten years ago and now keep it quiet I was ever part of it

Awesome

The Skylon should have an Apple logo on it, it just looks so much cooler than the other crap out there, just on this it deserves to be built.

I note the sabre engine also burns hydrogen and so is potentially emission free, not much being said about that but that does have an implication on conventional air travel which is a big polluter (does it not!)

Good on em for keeping trying, and taking a sensible staging approach to testing the technology personally after 30 years of this Reaction engines should work on the assumption there will be no help from UK PLC